Shop robbed, customers ordered to steal

A supermarket owned by Bangladeshis has been robbed of an undisclosed
amount of cash, cellphones and cigarettes.

Four armed men entered the supermarket, east of Johannesburg, at 10am
on Wednesday, rounded up customers and instructed the owners to give
them money.

Captain Alfred Nakana, a police spokesman, said: "After taking the
money, cellphones and cigarettes, they instructed all customers to take
all the things they had intended to buy and leave the store without
paying for them... they did as told."

The men then fled the scene. No one was injured and no arrests have been
made.

In an unrelated incident, four men have been arrested for dealing in
dagga in Daveyton during a "clean-up". The police confiscated dagga with
the street value of R12 000.

The four are expected to appear in the Daveyton Magistrate's Court on
Thursday.